Welcome to SolarBalls! This channel features entertaining animations that help you learn about the solar system and the ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports. The discovery stemmed from an unusual temperature pattern scientists observed ...

A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...

The rugby ball-shaped WASP-103 b is the first non-spherical exoplanet discovered. Whipping around its star in less than a day, tidal forces on the planet have pressed it into a rugby ball shape ...

Learn about the different planets in our Solar System. Find out their size, ... Uranus has at least 27 moons, 13 rings and spins on its side like a ball rolling along its orbit.

Our life-giving death star is experiencing its “solar maximum,” which sounds like the name of a Christian rock band and is defined as the peak activity period within the sun’s 11-… ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.